Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.423

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Reed Carnrick, New York, NY. Vertical rectangular white paperboard box, printed in black. Front: "PROTONUCLEIN / TABLETS / THE PRIMAL NU- / CLEIN OF EACH / INDIVIDUAL TISSUE / OF THE BODY / TISSUE / BUILDER. / ANTITOXINE / MANUFACTURED BY / REED CARNRICK / NEW YORK". Dosage printed on left side. Uses printed on right side. Box maker's logo printed on bottom: "THE NATIONAL FOLDING BOX / AND PAPER CO. / NEW HAVEN, CONN. / 2 / NEW YORK." Box contains rectangular brown glass bottle; printed paper label with same text as on box; glass embossed "PROTONUCLEIN" on back; cork stopper; paper seal that covered cork is now broken; bottle contains round white pills, about 2/3 full. Box also contains printed paper sheet.

Material:

Paper
Glass

Dimensions:

H-3.6 W-1.8 D-1.35 inches

Provenance:

Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068.)

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Pills